Sunday, December 15, 2013

London Chess Classic 2013: Boris Gelfand vs Hikaru Nakamura in Final....Nepal Chess News: Bibek Thing is Nepal u-19 National Chess Champion...Anton Korobov Wins European Blitz Chess in Warsaw....Sport Accord World Mind Games Chess 2013: Wang Yue, Valentina Gunina win Chess Rapid (men and women's) Event.......Rolando Nolte wins Penang Heritage City Chess Open 2013 in Malaysia....SEA GAMES XXVII MYANMAR 2013 - CHESS (I).....World Youth Announcement Important....SportAccord Mind Games: Day 2 of Blitz....

World Youth Announcement Important

ali@fide.com (Ali Nihat Yazici) at World Chess Federation - FIDE - 7 hours ago
[image: banner wycc2013] The Organizing Committee of the World Youth Chess Championship announces that the UAE Immigration Department has authorized the Accreditation Card issued online as their entry permit to the UAE for the championship. Accreditation Cards are available only to National Federations who have their username and password. Please print and wear your Accreditation Card on arrival in the UAE. Attached is letter to all Airlines. (English) Attached is letter to all Airlines. (Arabic)

SportAccord Mind Games: Day 2 of Blitz

aysa@fide.com (Aysa Mondrunova) at World Chess Federation - FIDE - 7 hours ago
[image: sportaccord logo] Day 2 of the womens blitz event, saw the reigning World Champion, Hou Yifan break away from the field of competitors. Day 2 of the mens blitz tournament, was a very dramatic day, where the lead constantly kept changing. Full report of the day is available at the official website [image: DSCF0634] ------------------------------ *Day 1 of Blitz* Valentina Gunina from Russia and Levon Aronian from Armenia are leading the Blitz tournament after Day 1. [image: day31 045] [image: DSCF0512] Cross-tables Men Cross-tables Women Official website ------------... more »

WGM Bulmaga's Photo Report from London

By WGM Irina Bulmaga, Romania, FIDE 2396 WGM Irina Bulmaga is playing in the London Chess Classic Women's Invitational.... more »

London Chess Classic 2013: Boris Gelfand vs Hikaru Nakamura in Final

Chess Blog Admin at CHESS NEWS BLOG: chessblog.com - 9 hours ago
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone, The London Chess Classic 2013 is going to witness the grand final between Boris Gelfand of Israel and Hikaru Nakamura of the USA on Sunday from 17.30 onwards local time at the Olympia Centre in London. WATCH LIVE FINALS @ LONDON CHESS CLASSIC OFFICIAL WEBSITE The semi-finals have just finished where Gelfand knocked out a determined Michael Adams and Hikaru Nakamura snatched a win on an endgame-jitters' from Vladimir Kramnik. Gelfand won the first game and drew the second with Adams to cruise ... more »

SportAccord World Mind Games Chess Blitz: Gunina, Aronian Lead on Day 1

Chess Blog Admin at CHESS NEWS BLOG: chessblog.com - 10 hours ago
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone, Blitz Chess events began at the SportAccord World Mind Games 2013 in Beijing on Saturday. This category has a different format, whereby players will face-off two times and only have 3 minutes (+2 seconds added after every move) for an entire game. Valentina Gunina from Russia was leading after 10 rounds with 8 points. She showed great play with excellent decision making. Right behind is Anna Muzychuk from Slovenia and Yifan Hou (reigning women's world chess champion) from China. In the Men's ... more »

2nd Chess Festival in Erbil, Iraq from Dec 12-19

Chess Blog Admin at CHESS NEWS BLOG: chessblog.com - 10 hours ago
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone, The Kurdistan Chess Federation, Khanzad Chess Club and Capablanka Chess Institute are organizing the 2nd International Chess Festival in Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq. The 9-round Swiss open is taking place from 12th to 19th December at the Saad's Palace for Conferences & Meetings in Erbil. Tournament director is Dlzar Hamasalih Qadir and Chief arbiter is Ashod Vardapetyan. Already 71 players from 19 countries are registered to take part in the tournament. Among them are 11 Grandmasters. *To... more »

Nepal Chess News: Bibek Thing is Nepal u-19 National Chess Champion

Chess Blog Admin at CHESS NEWS BLOG: chessblog.com - 10 hours ago
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone, Kathmandu: Bibek Thing of The Times International College defeated overnight leader Bijay Dangol of Trinity to win the title of the third U-19 National Chess Championships here at the National Sports Council on Sunday. Bibek needed not less than a victory to lift the title and in the seventh and final round he was up against Bijay, who was on six points where a draw could have fetched the latter his first national crown. Bijay, however, lost the decider and after both players were tied on six p... more »

Urgent Announcement from Organizers

ali@fide.com (Ali Nihat Yazici) at World Chess Federation - FIDE - 11 hours ago
[image: banner wycc2013]The organizers of the World Youth Chess Championship announce that they continue to upload visas to the page of each federation on the official site www.worldyouth2013.com. Small discrepancies in the visas are allowed by immigration authorities and can be corrected on arrival. Those with pending visas may secure their visas on arrival. For emergencies please email to visa@worldyouth2013.com with copy to office@fide.com

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Informasi Brosur Turnamen Catur at Informasi Brosur Turnamen Catur - 11 hours ago
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London Chess Classic: 1/2-Finals

Results of the 1/4-finals: Hikaru Nakamura - Nigel Short: 1.5-0.5 Vladimir Kramnik - Vishy Anand: 1.5-0.5 Michael Adams - Peter Svidler: 1-1; 2-0 Boris... more »

SEA GAMES XXVII MYANMAR 2013 - CHESS (I)

Henry Hendratno at CATUR INDONESIA - 1 day ago
*SEA GAMES XXVII MYANMAR* berlangsung dari tanggal 11 Desember s/d 22 Desember 2013. Untuk Cabor Catur mulai dipertandingkan pada tanggal 12 Desember 2013 dan berakhir pada tanggal 21 Desember 2013. Meskipun nomor-nomor yang dipertandingkan di cabor Catur mayoritas adalah Catur Tradisional Myanmar dan Catur ASEAN (dari 18 nomor hanya 4 nomor Catur Internasional), namun TimNas Percasi - Catur Indonesia tetap bertekad meraih medali sebanyak-banyaknya. Target yang dibebankan oleh KONI Pusat pada cabor Catur adalah raihan 2 Medali Emas (peningkatan dari pencapaian di SEA GAMES XXVI Pa... more »

SportAccord Mind Games: Day 1 of Blitz

aysa@fide.com (Aysa Mondrunova) at World Chess Federation - FIDE - 1 day ago
[image: sportaccord logo] Valentina Gunina from Russia and Levon Aronian from Armenia are leading the Blitz tournament after Day 1. [image: day31 045] [image: DSCF0512] Cross-tables Men Cross-table Women Official website ------------------------------ *Rapid Results* *Wang Yue* and *Valentina Gunina* became the winners of the rapid tournament SportAccord Mind Games in Beijing. Rapid results - WOMEN Rapid results - MEN [image: Day2 401] [image: Day2 435] ------------------------------ SportAccord Mind Games started today in Beijing, China. *Day 1 of Rapid* At the end of... more »

Anton Korobov Wins European Blitz Chess in Warsaw

Chess Blog Admin at CHESS NEWS BLOG: chessblog.com - 1 day ago
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone, The latest chess news via FIDE is that Grandmaster Anton Korobov won the European Blitz Chess Championship 2013 that was held on 13th December at The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. A total of 437 players from 28 European federations (FIDE Zones 1.1 to 1.10), including 104 International title holders, competed in the 11 double-round Swiss event with the time control G-3′+2”. Anton Korobov finished clear first with 18,5/22 points, leaving the nearest followers point and a half... more »

Sport Accord World Mind Games Chess 2013: Wang Yue, Valentina Gunina win Chess Rapid (men and women's) Event

Chess Blog Admin at CHESS NEWS BLOG: chessblog.com - 1 day ago
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone, Congratulations to Wang Yue of China and Valentina Gunina of Russia for winning the Rapid Chess events (in the men and women's categories) at the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing. The champions were crowned after two days of exciting rapid chess. In the women's section, reigning women's world chess champion Hou Yifan was second and Ju Wenjun was third. In the men's section, Peter Leko was second and Alexander Grischuk was third. Meanwhile, special school visits have also been arranged ... more »

London Chess Classic 2013: Favourites through to Quarter Finals

Chess Blog Admin at CHESS NEWS BLOG: chessblog.com - 1 day ago
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone, The latest chess news updates from the London Chess Classic 2013 are here from a report by John Saunders: SUPER SIXTEEN RAPID: THE END OF THE BEGINNING... So the preliminary stage is over, with the result that all eight starting favourites are through to the quarter-finals (pairings are Kramnik-Anand, Adams-Svidler, Caruana-Gelfand, Short-Nakamura). The tournament has had a number of surprise individual results but in the end the double-cycle all-play-all format has ensured that the consistent... more »

GM Karjakin - GM Khenkin annotated by GM Balogh

By GM Csaba Balogh, Hungary, FIDE 2648 A convincing outplaying of the Berlin defence is a tough challenge nowadays.

Rolando Nolte wins Penang Heritage City Chess Open 2013 in Malaysia

Chess Blog Admin at CHESS NEWS BLOG: chessblog.com - 1 day ago
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013 Hello everyone, According to chess news reports from Manila, International Master (IM) Rolando Nolte has won the 5th Penang Heritage City International Chess Open 2013 at the Red Rock Hotel in Penang, Malaysia on Friday night. Nolte defeated Malaysian Yeoh Li Tian in the final round to score 7.5 points over nine rounds to win 5,000 Malaysian Ringgit. IM Andrey Kvon of Uzbekistan, IM candidate Roel Abelgas of the Philippines and FM Riste Menkinoski of Macedonia finished with 7.0 points to share the second-four... more »

London Chess Classic: 1/4-Finals

Group 1: Vishy Anand vs. Vladimir Kramnik; Peter Svidler vs. Michael Adams Group 2: Hikaru Nakamura vs. Nigel Short; Boris Gelfand vs.... more »

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